...columbrar, to discern, espy...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
... “He is a man who has a sure glance to discern, when a ship is launched, what are the defects and qualities of that ship—that is valuable, observe! Nature is truly whimsical...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...On looking straight before her, she began to discern the landing place, the little wooden bridge across which the passengers walked one by one from the boat onto the jetty...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...He strained his eyes in the effort to discern their features...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...Yet suddenly I seemed to discern one glaring up at me from the middle of the crowd—the pale face of a man with a bandage about his head...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...It seemed, as far as we could at this time discern, to be like a river a quarter of a mile wide...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I followed the sound, and at daybreakarrived at some shallow muddy pools, so full of frogs, that itwas difficult to discern the water...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1 [of 2]」
...In most, the ovaries were easily distinguished, but in some wecould not discern the faintest traces of them...
Francis Huber Anonymous 「New observations on the natural history of bees」
...They could but just discern her on a pointed rock far off, and, hastening to the spot, perceived her standing with a newly-dropped kid, which she was defending from a fox...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...These percentages were calculated forthe main stream and for each tributary in an attempt to discern possibleintra-stream faunal patterns...
Artie L. Metcalf 「Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas」
...They circled the lodge, but in the dimness of the light could discern no guiding footprint to tell the direction in which their young wives had gone...
Edward S. Curtis 「The North American Indian」
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